Lucerne, Switzerland (Le Temps, Fre) – Lucern voters 28 September strongly (60%) rejected a national schooling plan that has been hammered out and agreed to by the country’s cantonal education departments, raising the question of the impact now on other cantons, which have begun to adopt the programme.

Voters appear to have voted against it because it requires all children to start school at the age of four, while Lucerne children currently start a year later and have only one, rather than two years of pre-school. Switzerland has been struggling for several years to put together a national schooling plan that would harmonize the ages for starting and finishing the overall programme, but also the number of years at each level and the broad stroke of the curriculum. The problems linked to different cantonal programmes, including teacher training, have become a focus as families and students move more frequently.

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